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Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025

S. 151 · 119th Congress · Jan 17, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025”.

Sec. 2 Exclusion of authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from International Emergency Economic Powers Act

Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) is amended—
(1)
by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(2)
by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

“(c)

“(1) The authority granted to the President by this section does not include the authority to impose or increase a duty, or to impose a tariff-rate quota, on an article entering the United States.

“(2) The limitation under paragraph (1) does not prohibit the President from excluding all articles, or all of a certain type of article, imported from a country from entering the United States.”